7 Horrific Details About The Professor Who Killed His Boyfriend As A Part Of A Bizarre Sex Fantasy

What at first seemed like a random murder of a Chicago hairstylist by a college professor and a university employee, has unveiled itself to be a planned murder-suicide sexual fantasy.

After being on the run for eight days, microbiology professor Wyndham Lathem and senior treasury assistant Andrew Warren turned themselves into police for murdering Trenton James Cornell-Duranleau — who was Lathem's boyfriend.

The two took turned that plan into action July 27, when they stabbed the 26-year-old 70 times at Lathem's condo in Chicago. Lathem even paid for Warren's ticket to the United States and booked him a hotel room not far from the murder scene.

The night of the murder, Cornell-Duranleau was asleep at the 46-year-old professor's condo when Warren was let into the house. As Warren stood in the doorway, Lathem crept up on his boyfriend and began to stab him with a six-inch drywall saw knife.

Warren and Lathem are currently in jail awaiting their next hearing. Here are seven awful details we've learned about the case:

1. Lathem and Warren discussed their murder-suicide sexual fantasy in an online chatroom.

The hairstylist woke up during the attack, began screaming and started fighting back. At one point, he even bit Warren's hand.

But the brutality of the murder was too much for Cornell-Duranleau to fight off. He was stabbed 70 times; 21 times in his chest and abdomen and 26 in his back. He also has multiple cuts to his hands, two punctured lungs, wounds to colon, spleen, and liver.